Thanksgiving decoded: watch and complete

— And I'm thankful for my Kindergarten class who made these wonderful to celebrate Thanksgiving.
— After the Native Americans helped the Pilgrims their first winter in America, the Puritans them to share the first Thanksgiving.
— Awe!
— Oh, these are adorably .
— A five-year-old made that.
— Based off of the that you taught them.
— Excuse me?
— Oh, it's not your , these are full of half and historical .
— I thought the Native Americans and the Pilgrims were, like, , or whatever.
— At best, the Pilgrims and Wampanoags could be described as "political ." By the time the Pilgrims showed up, not only were two-thirds of the Massachusetts completely by European slave owners and , the Pilgrims were constantly at with the indigenous people and routinely tortured them.
— But what about Squanto, the Native American who learned English to help out the Pilgrims?
— He was actually a that was hauled off to Europe and then he learned English so that he could .
— But they did celebrate it every year, right?
— Not exactly, the next one was sixteen years and, unfortunately, it was because the Puritans were celebrating the of the Pequot tribe. Back then, Thanksgiving was also for families, specifically, murdering them.
— Okay, we it! History's awful, the Puritans were terrible, and now we have to let our children know that the holiday started with of killings. Happy?

— Well, we actually have just about everything wrong with the Thanksgiving . Definitely didn't wear these hats. Didn't on Plymouth Rock. And as for that turkey…
— Oh no, not the turkey.
— More like , fowl, and eel.
— Geez!
— Who cares about how this stupid holiday got anyway?
— Exactly. In George Washington's seventeen eighty-nine Thanksgiving , the settlers aren't , not even once. Thanksgiving wasn't celebrated until eighteen sixty-three when this guy declared it a national during the Civil War in order to bring the country . That's why all of our foods are from the nineteenth .
— So Lincoln came up with the whole Indian/Pilgrim ?
— Nope, that myth didn't 'til the nineteen hundreds, after we had fought and killed all the Native Americans. And then we put it in as fact because, America! But, the food is really good and if you all the terrible history, you know, like the murdering, the raping, the pillaging, still kind of a great holiday.
— So the Mayflower is a ?
— Why do we eat cranberry sauce?
— What about stuffing?
— Is Black Friday really just a capitalist to get poor people to buy things so we can't truly live out a populous revolt?
— I am never telling you the ever again.
— One historical says that the Pilgrims were off firing their when the Wampanoag tribe just showed up, presumably, to find out why the white folks were shooting up the place, which is a question that we still ask this very day.

Two-thirds of the tribes (wipe out) by slave owners and diseases.
Squanto (haul off) to Europe as a slave.
In Washington's proclamation, the settlers (not mention) once.
Thanksgiving (not celebrate) nationwide until eighteen sixty-three.
It (declare) a national holiday by Abraham Lincoln.
The myth (put) in textbooks as fact.
These crafts (make) by five-year-old children.
The Pilgrims and the Wampanoags could (describe) as political allies.
Today, the real story (teach) in more and more schools.
Since nineteen seventy, a Day of Mourning (hold) in Plymouth on Thanksgiving Day.
Next year, the parade (watch) by millions of people.
It (say) that the Pilgrims ate turkey, but it's probably a myth.